Look out for these trends in 2025
2025 is set to be a transformative year for businesses in South Africa with industries navigating new challenges and opportunities driven by global trends, technological advancements, and market dynamics. From shifts in how people work, to tariffs, and emerging risks,...
AI key in fighting new cyberthreats
During 2024, the world saw cyberthreats evolve faster than before primarily due to the rise in the number of and popularity of AI tools. These tools assist cybercriminals in refining and making attack tactics more sophisticated and more difficult to recognise, while...
Women are being shut out of Web3
Web3 companies - those developing radical new applications involving the metaverse, blockchain technologies, and cryptocurrencies that are set to transform many global industries - are on the cutting edge of shaping the future of the digital world. But in one aspect...
Tourists are travelling back to SA’s biggest cities
The World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) has revealed positive signs of recovery for the South African travel and tourism sector, with travellers heading back to its major cities. The report, researched in partnership with Oxford Economics, analysed key...
What to expect from the upcoming budget
Kathy Gibson reports - Amid bearish predictions about economic growth, most (59%) of South African CEOs expect local GDP growth to decline this year. Among the challenges businesses are grappling with are structural issues, while electricity supply is having a major...
SA leads the African move to cloud
Kathy Gibson reports - South African companies expect to massively increase their investment in cloud this year. Seventy-three percent of South African respondents in the "Cloud in Africa" study released today by World Wide Worx in conjunction with Red Hat and F5 say...
SA employees still wary of AI, robots in the workplace
With the rise in popularity of artificial intelligence (AI) - especially with the recent launch of the ChatGPT bot - there are concerns among employees in the Middle East, Turkiye and Africa region with regard to robots and automation systems used by companies,...
AI tops Google search trends in 2022
Google Search trends show that interest in "artificial intelligence" reached a record in 2022 in South Africa and across the world and is peaking again in January 2023, with top searches including "ai generator" (Number 3), "ai art" (4), "what is ai" (5), and "google...
Network security revenue surges, but set to slow
Enterprise spend on network security technologies - including email security, firewall, security service edge (SSE), secure Web gateway (SWG), Web application firewall (WAF), and application delivery controller (ADC) products - has been on the rebound after the dismal...
What cyberthreats to look out for in 2023
As cyberthreats continue to grow, the latest Future/Tense: Trend Micro Security Predictions for 2023 report warns that threat actors will once again ramp up attacks targeting security blind spots in the home office, software supply chain. "Although the pandemic may be...
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Samsung launches Gear Fit2 and Gear IconX in SA
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Smart UX Centre SDK now mobile-compatible
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Rectron secures distribution rights for EKWB
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Western Digital in 64-layer NAND first
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Defending the organisation against spear-phishing
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Business intelligence: waste of time or way of the future?
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The brains behind the mobile devices
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Disrupt your own business
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Kaspersky Lab tracks 100+ malicious campaigns
There used to only be dozens of threat actors, but the Kaspersky Lab Global Research and Analysis team now tracks the activity of more than a hundred threat actors and sophisticated malicious operations targeting commercial and government organisations in 85...
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SAP ABAP Developer – Western Cape Bellville
My client based in Cape Town is currently looking for an SAP Developer ABAP / Fiori / UI5 to join them on a fixed term contract IT / Finance Responsibilities Help with day-to-day queries from users and IT teamsSupport existing systemsExperience of end-to-end...
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A senior cloud architect to join the team to ramp up our mainframe services regarding the refactoring (conversion) from mainframe applications to Java based cloud applications.Doing a proof of concept with a small application to select an appropriate Code Conversion...
Automation Tester (with Salesforce experience)
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Security Analyst X2 – Gauteng Pretoria
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Technology Integrator (Chief Expert) 2870 TT – Gauteng Pretoria
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